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Jim_Callahan:Kind of arguable. Machines also aren't capable of going off the reservation and making bad decisions. Humans are.

You mean the complicated hardware and software to control an autonomous weapons platform will never malfunction? What a relief!

Anyway, I doubt deployment can be banned. How about a law which holds the human who orders the deployment of such machines directly responsible for the actions of them, with punishments equal to that human having carried out such actions him/herself? You want to deploy a machine that cannot take responsibility for who it shoots? Then you take responsibility for who it shoots.